The British Empire was not founded on peace and good will.

1. Hobson’s Pledge latest member Don Esslemont has had his money contribution
acknowledged…So he will be helping fund any political party / person / thing
they can find to support their yet again campaign to put Maori in their place.

The search is
underway, so far the far right ACT
party don’t want a bar of it, right-wing National feels the same, NZ First remembers when it held a few Maori seats so it too
steers well clear of the Hobson’s Pledge gang.

Naturally the Greens and Labour
find it all Ho-hum after reading the names of the founding members. I wondered
what had happened to the bunch of ex-Nats, ex-Act party hacks like Allan Titford, Vincent Grey, Elizabeth
Rata and maybe even Steven Franks.

Have they decided not
to support Don Brash’s reincarnation? What really gets the mind active as to
what they’ll come up with now that Don
Brash has brought into the mix David
Round, John Bell, Mike Butler and Mike
McVicker and you really have to wonder if the earlier crowd has seen
the light? The original mob were odd balls, Titford for example may still be in
jail for all I know.

The logic behind the
movement is weird and really strange because Don Esslemont along with other
misguided individuals considers that Maori don’t exist! Really!

Their theory is that
because there are no FULL BLOODED Maori left in NZ, or anywhere for that
matter, we should cease to recognise the treaty we signed up to. But they are
not anti-Maori, they even tell us that Maori belong to their group…as Don
Esslemont would say…part-Maori…

They can’t have it
both ways… It says more about their utter confusion and childlike behaviour
than anything else. I wonder if all the young people in the PR picture have
signed up with Hobsons Pledge. I doubt it because they don’t live here, they
live in the US. And we all know the way they treat their African Americans and Native
Americans. “It’s One law for all” they say…yeah right. Tell that to the
US police forces.

I think Don Esslemont
likes to belong to groups such as these because it gives him a sense of belonging…and
being a self-proclaimed academic of sorts, not a qualified one, but an imagined
one, but most of all it gives him [and others] a sense of importance as they
pretend that their forbears were somehow honourable people.

Still that is his
right and I would fight for his right to protest for his strange moral beliefs.
No doubt he will organise and lead a protest march around the Square here in
Palmerston North by the thousands who belong to Hobson’s Pledge. Now let’s
return to reality and the real world here in New Zealand.

Now let’s have a look
at the lead character in the wonderful and meaningful cartoon below, he is very
real and exists to this day: In this city and everywhere, this is absolutely the
character that’s visible in our communities.

Governor Hobson said
‘We are all one people’ but he never really meant it as history proves. Just as
the brits said they loved the Africans, the Indians of India, the Aborigines’
of Australia and Malaya etc.

Hobson was a product
of his period. The brits didn’t even love their own people, they shipped them
off shore or hung them for stealing a loaf of bread, they murdered the Irish
and the Scots, while pretending to love their German bred so-called royal
family. It was a very cruel world back then. The only way to beat them back
then was to kick the brits in the arse, the American settlers did it, the Maori
did it which led to the treaty, the Aborigines failed and were slaughtered in
their thousands, the Irish gave the Poms a real whipping and the Indians in
India did it later by non-violent means.

The British Empire
was not founded on peace and good will. It was based as are most empires on
power and cruelty, absolute corruption and treachery. We in New Zealand have a
chance to lead the world in healing the wounds we caused to our indigenous
people, to fix the wrongs and importantly to share the power. The secret is the
process and the desired outcomes:

The Treaty in 1840
was the first step, the formalising of the treaty by the introduction of the
Waitangi Tribunal process which was the ways and means for correcting the
wrongs and starting the process of returning land appropriated to its rightful
owners.

Other countries have
tackled this change in different ways many have used violence to force the colonialists
out, the British Empire slowly but surely collapsed as did the French, Dutch,
German and Russian Empires.

The present US Empire
too is facing collapse under the weight of its own lies and the treatment it
dishes out to Black African Americans and those who have fought its wars in
Vietnam and the Middle East and are now sleeping on the streets, when the
richest country in the world, has the greatest poverty per head of population
in the world you know something is wrong, when it becomes the most imprisoned
this is simply another indicator. But more recently when the people of the US
have to choose between Trump the idiot or Clinton the murderer, at least those
who are allowed to vote have…I know it’s too late for democracy as we
understand it for it has been appropriated by the few…and the remainder are
slaves by other new names, workers the poor etc.

2. The
people of the US seem to be among the most ignorant societies in the
world, even with the latest technologies available they can’t find a way to
break free from the grip and rigid control of those with money who control the
main stream media.

Both Republicans and Democrats are devoid of actual democracy that can actually
allow people to have a choice. You may not realise it but the crowd who owns
the rights to run the presidential addresses on TV is a privately owned Company
owned by the Republican and Democratic parties…

Yes its true they’ve privatised the
electioneering process. It’s so bad that Hillary Clinton ordered the media, and
they obeyed, to tell lies about Bernie Sanders…Now Donald Trump’s latest rant
is that he won’t accept the result unless he wins…

What’s he going to do, tell his mates in the
KKK and the American Gun Association to go to war and take over the white house…get
the twenty plus gun happy generals to call out the troops?